Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony: modernizes from star-studded finale – dwell | Paris Olympic Games 2024

Paris is hugged by a pink sky and sees resplendent on the TV footage. Have the Beeb put some sort of filter on that? Seems almost too perfect.It’s pretty enough to convey a tear to the eye and send you understanding for the Gauloises. C’est magnifique.

Over the next scant hours we’ll see the Olympic flag ceremoniassociate transferred from Paris to LA and more than probable an entire country’s GDP of firelabors spaffed into the inky Parisian sky at the shut.

Each present nation is donaten free reign to commemorate however they see fit:

Celebratory moments from previous Olympic Games have seen a reunion of the Spice Girls, the British pop group arriving into the arena standing atop the well-understandn London bdeficiency cab taxis singing ‘Spice up your Life’ at London 2012.

At Sydney 2000, Australian popstar Kylie Minogue brawt the curtain down on the first Games of the new millennium with a rendition of ABBA’s ‘Dancing Queen’ clad in a radiant pink showgirl costume, end with feathers.”

‘Records’ is the somewhat cryptic name donaten to the 2024 Olympic Closing ceremony. I’m going to stick my neck on the line and say that music will carry out a sizeable part. The official Olympic website has some more incisive/equassociate spurious blurb”

More than 100 percreateers, acrobats, dancers, and circus artists will combine world-famous singers in various musical percreateances. Part of the show will get place in the air, accompanied by spectacular airying effects and the flair of the French in the costumes, with the overall effect taking spectators – both those at home and in person – “on a journey into the past, to the origins of the Games, but also into the future, and ultimately to a timeless universe”.

Ceremony creative straightforwardor Ricchallenging Jolly portrays the show as “very visual”, “acrobatic” and “operatic”, with a “wonderful visual fresco”.

On 11 August 2024, the Olympic Games will be over, and the Olympic ffeeble will be extinguished, that moment will remind us fair how precious these Olympic Games are – a distinctive monument to a dispensed experience – and therefore frquick.”

Thanks for sending in some of your favourite moments. Keep ‘em coming.

“Bryony Page’s reaction to triumphning Trampoline Gelderly was wonderful!” says Stephen Thomas. “She’s apparently off to Cirque du Soleil next, after geting a Biology PhD – is there anyleang this woman cannot do?!”

“Undoubtedly the best moment of the games has to be the DJ spinning John Lennon’s Imagine as the Women’s beach volleyball final was getting over-heated and they were about to boot sand into each others faces!” authors Alex Bdeficiencyham

Pieter Van Stein plumps for “The basketball 3×3 final France v The Netherlands, especiassociate the final seconds of normal time instantly trailed by the uninalertigentinutive first-2-points-triumphs extension”

This is a adodepend yarn from Ben Bloom:

Final Day Reportage: If you leank our intrepid alerters on the ground in Paris have spent the final day of the games putting their cobble-corned trotters up and necking Châteauneuf-du-Pape appreciate it’s going out of sell-by-date then you’d be very much misgetn:

This is pretty nifty. Want to examine exactly who won what, in what time, when and where? We’ve got you covered:

Greatest moments of the 2024 Games? Do you concur or disconcur with these? What’ve we ignoreed and what wasn’t actuassociate all that? These leangs won’t argue themselves. Feel free to have you say by whanging an email into the mailbag.

It’s not reassociate about the final medal table though is it? Is it?

As we countdown to the main event, I’ll dispense some of our alerts and features from the final day of action in Paris. The TV coverage of the event on the Beeb doesn’t get underway until 7pm. Countryfile is currently shotriumphg on Channel One and rehireting it’s weekly Sunday evening dose of currentialism ‘what am I doing with my life living in a one bedroom flat in South London when I could be rearing snuggly seeing sheep and living in idyllic country bliss in Herefordsengage’ type of leang. Maybe that is fair me? Channel 4 is shotriumphg a determinedly un-Olympian ‘Secret World of Crisps’ and ITV a Harry Potter film for the BILLIONTH time.

Anyway – this is a better chooseion than all of the above – The Guardian’s snappers have unemotionalelayedd a jaw-droppingly adodepend assembleion of pictures from the past two weeks. Enhappiness.

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James Wallace